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===Captains===
The [[coach (sports)|captains]] have always selected the players and chosen the playing order in each group of matches. When the contest involved 36-hole matches, it was usual for the captain to be one of the [[player-coach|players]]. The USA only had two non-playing captains in this period: [[Walter Hagen]] in [[1937 Ryder Cup|1937]] and [[Ben Hogan]] in [[1949 Ryder Cup|1949]] while Great Britain had non-playing captains in [[1933 Ryder Cup|1933]], [[1949 Ryder Cup|1949]], [[1951 Ryder Cup|1951]] and [[1953 Ryder Cup|1953]]. With the change to 18-hole matches and the extension to three days, it became more difficult to combine the roles of captain and player and [[Arnold Palmer]] in [[1963 Ryder Cup|1963]] was the last playing captain. The captains have always been [[professional golfer]]s and the only captain who never played in the Ryder Cup was [[John Henry Taylor|J. H. Taylor]], the 1933 British captain.